I got to thinking today that maybe pointing and laughing is not a great liberal policy after all.
The corprate media plays along with Limbaugh and Hannity as if their ideas deserve consideration and good soldier Republicans like Protack and FSP take a lot of the craze-baggery at face value and parrot it dutifully. (Critical thinking is not a priority, let’s face it.)
The top down messaging gives other (saner) Republicans like Tom Carper a lot of room on the right to operate by moving the overton window on every public policy question that comes up.
As a result we have people walking around (even members of Congress) who think that there is a conservative consensus in this country when, in fact, the country favors liberal positions on public policy questions such as healthcare.